Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Time
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher whose two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are among the supreme achievements of world literature. This page collects quotes attributed to Leo Tolstoy on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
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“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
War and Peace(1865–1867; 1869) | Book IV, Ch. 11 -
“History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.”
War and Peace(1865–1867; 1869) | Epilogue II, ch. 1 -
“Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”
Confession(1882) | Pt. I, ch. 1